If they obey and serve {him}, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

For {there are} no bands in their death: but their strength {is} firm. {firm: Heb. fat}

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, {and} be merry.

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. {beauty: or, strength} {in the grave from...: or, the grave being an habitation to every one of them}

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {so doth} the grave {those which} have sinned. {consume: Heb. violently take}

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil {was} near them.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.